Aristotle Quotes
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.Aristotle
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.Aristotle
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.Aristotle
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.Aristotle
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do.Aristotle
It is easy to fly into a passion - - Anybody can do that - - But to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way - - That is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.Aristotle
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.Aristotle
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.Aristotle
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.Aristotle
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.Aristotle
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.Aristotle
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.Aristotle
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.Aristotle
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.Aristotle
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.Aristotle
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.Aristotle
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.Aristotle
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age.Aristotle
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.Aristotle
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.Aristotle
Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...Aristotle
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.Aristotle
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.Aristotle
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.Aristotle
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.Aristotle
